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Abstract
Autism etiology remains unknown. In this paper, I suggest a hypothesis related to a traumatic event occurred during prenatal, perinatal or initial postnatal period and felt by the victim with a vivid sense of death.
This event triggers two innate and biological response reflex. The first aim to preserve life through the minimum absorption and consume of cell's oxygen to perform its vital functions.
The second response has the objective to appease the fetus or the newborn death's anxiety, promoted by a traumatic event. It consists in the generation of physical sensations produced by the body's own elements in touch with its sensory surfaces.
Both responses remains registered in cerebral amygdala and answers for the predisposition.
I developed this hypothesis through interdisciplinary studies between Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry, Experimental Psychology and Neurobiology.
My clinical results justify the continuation of these studies, as illustrated by clinical material presented.